Leonardo Cimino

Fifteen-year-old musician Jeremy is smitten with an aspiring young dancer, and together they discover Manhattan and each other.

Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.